Grade Seven learner receives Dux award for academic excellence
Ngulube, who told this paper she wants to be a doctor, said she is very excited about the achievement.
The family and teachers of Alicia Ngulube (13) from Palm Ridge, Extention Nine, are very excited about her achievement during the 2019 academic year.
Ngulube, who was in Grade Seven at Peasant Folly Primary School in Palm Ridge this year, and performed her utmost best, passing all her subjects with distinctions.
She was awarded at the school during a ceremony which took place on November 22.
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“I am very excited and I don’t even know what to say to express how I feel. What I know is that I do not want to disappoint my mother who is a single parent.
“I want to be a doctor who will come back and change the lives of the people of this township. Most of the good doctors do not work in their townships, instead, they work in suburbs or overseas. I want to be a different doctor who is going to come back to the township and put the lives of elderly women ahead of everything,” said an enthusiastic Ngulube.
Her mother, Maureen Ngulube, who is working as a domestic worker in Bedfordview, told this publication that since her husband died four years ago, it hasn’t been easy to raise her three children – two teenage girls and a boy.
“But I am glad that they turned out to be such good children at home and academically. I have no doubt they will become big things in life one day if they keep up this way,” Maureen said, adding that she does not want to choose careers for them but will allow them to be what they want to be.
“The biggest mistake we do as parents is we force our children to fulfil our failed dreams. There are parents who want their children to be doctors just because they wanted to be doctors themselves,” Maureen told Kathorus MAIL.
She added that she would never do such a thing to her own children.
Alicia’s older sister, Nicole Ngulube (16), said her younger sister is one of the most dedicated people in her school.
“You will never find her doing anything with her free time other than school work. She locks herself up in her room to do her school work alone and you would never hear her seeking for help. She figures things out on her own,” Nicole said.
Like her younger sister, who is the Dux student of the school this year, Nicole also earned a Dux award in 2018.
“We are not a rich family but good upbringing, love and support of one another is what made me and my sister achieve what we achieved,” Nicole said.
According to Nokuthula Buthelezi, Ngulube’s life orientation teacher, Ngulube has passion for her work.
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“I am not surprised; she deserves everything that she got today. This young girl is good in maths and science. I imagine her as a scientist or a doctor one day. I heard that she wants to be a doctor and I am certain whatever career she will take in the science field, she will make a success out of it,” said Buthelezi.
Ngulube was awarded for the following:
Top achiever (Dux student) 2019 and top achiever in the following subjects: mathematics 86 per cent, home language isiZulu 87 per cent, social science 90 per cent, natural science and technology 90 per cent, English first additional language 99 per cent, creative arts 94 per cent, economic and management science 93 per cent and technology 89 per cent.
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